Bonus Episode 9: Zipangu Fest 2011 Special
Welcome to our second annual podcast episode covering the Zipangu Festival in London. This year’s festival ran from November 18th – 24th, 2011 in London...
The Equation of Love and Death (China, 2008)
Feature film production in mainland China can be broadly divided into two camps: state-approved releases (commercial product with politics that toe the party line) and...
The VCinema Show Episode 37: Moss
Happy Holidays from The VCinema Show gang! This is our last episode before 2012 so we want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving, Noel, New...
City of Life and Death (China, 2009)
In December of 1937, the Japanese army captured the city of Nanjing, early on in the Second Sino-Japanese War. In the brutal weeks that followed,...
One Moment of Asia: A Silent Yokohama Afternoon
Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise...
Everything Goes Wrong (Japan, 1960)
Seijun Suzuki’s 1960 film Everything Goes Wrong (Subete ga Kurutteru) opens in epic style with the BOOM! of artillery fire and the rat-tat-tat of carbine rifles as a nondescript group of soldiers attempt to...
Merantau (Indonesia, 2009)
When Yuda, master of the Indonesian martial art silat must follow his native tradition and leave home as a young man to find success in...
Quirky Guys and Gals (Japan, 2011)
The title of Quirky Guys and Gals effectively summarises a form of contemporary Japanese cinema that is, if not a fully-fledged genre, still immediately recognisable:...
One Moment of Asia: A Nostalgic Tone of Lake Ashi
Hakone, Japan...
The Apprehenders (South Korea, 2011)
The Apprehenders a.k.a. Officer of the Year is one of the few bright spots in what has been a relatively disappointing commercial output for Chungmoro,...